Dan Goldman is stepping into a new era of creator-owned storytelling with the launch of Kinjin Storylab, a studio built to house bold, design-forward projects that blend comics, art, and immersive narrative. Leading the charge is Red Light Properties: Unfinished Business, a massive 340-page hardcover (order it here) that collects the first season of Goldman’s cult-favorite tropical horror series, now available in both standard and deluxe slipcase editions.
Originally created, written, illustrated, and designed by Goldman, Red Light Properties drops readers into a surreal version of Miami Beach where hauntings are on the rise and real estate never stops moving. At the center are Jude and Cecilia Tobin, a married couple running a small agency that specializes in clearing haunted properties and reselling them at a discount. Jude handles the ghosts through psychic and shamanistic means, while Cecilia manages the business side, turning supernatural problems into a fragile path toward financial survival.
What starts as a clever hustle becomes something heavier. Their business struggles, their marriage strains, and the world around them grows more unstable. Rising sea levels, economic pressure, and a sense that the city itself is changing all feed into a story that mixes horror with grounded, human conflict.
The new collection is designed to be more than a simple reprint. Alongside the original material, it includes over 100 pages of previously unpublished content and 50 new pages that expand the world through additional storytelling layers. Goldman describes the book as an experience as much as a narrative, built to pull readers into its strange and shifting reality.
“Red Light Properties has been with me since my early career, and has continued evolving alongside all aspects of my storytelling practice,” Goldman said. “Unfinished Business wasn’t just a wink-wink title about the exorcism biz; the real unfinished business was between me and these characters, who never, ever stopped moving around in my head. With this book, I’m demarcating this as the series’s new beginning and continuing the story from here.”
He also emphasized the creative freedom behind the project. “Being the series’ publisher lets me finally make 100 percent of the creative decisions, meaning I’m able to produce a graphic novel that’s also a design object that creates an immersive portal for the reader. Opening the Unfinished Business landscape covers double-wide, you immediately fall into a striped liminal space where the book introduces itself, where you slowly float out of your world and into the world of Red Light Properties.”
With Kinjin Storylab, Goldman is positioning himself to continue exploring that kind of storytelling without compromise. The studio aims to deliver projects that feel personal, experimental, and visually striking, with Red Light Properties: Unfinished Business serving as its first major release.
The book is available now in both standard and deluxe editions, offering readers a deep dive into a world where ghosts linger, businesses struggle, and every haunted listing comes with a cost.
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